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Jacques Perk

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Jacques Perk

10 June 1859 · 10:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Dordrecht, South Holland, The Netherlands · 51.81°N 4.67°E
Placidus houses

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Reading

Constructed, not stored: each reading below is assembled from what the tradition attributes to the body, the sign and the house. It describes the symbolism — it is not a claim about a person, and unlike the positions it sits beside, none of it is something this site can check.

  1. Sun in Gemini · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.

  2. Moon in Libra · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 12

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 10

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

    In the public record of a life.

  9. Neptune in Pisces · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 6

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 6

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

    In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.

The tightest aspects

  1. True Node Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.04°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Mercury Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.20°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Mercury Lilith · trine, orb 0.29°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

    Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.

  4. Mars AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.33°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Uranus Lilith · trine, orb 0.49°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

    Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.

  6. Sun Moon · trine, orb 0.86°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it run together easily.

    Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.

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